The Deep Roots of Wealth Distribution

There's a play area at SeaWorld — bouncy surface, maybe 50 oversized stuffed shapes scattered around. The kids can't quite figure out what they're for, so rather than build rooms or towers, they just hoard. Forty kids, 50 objects — and four of them have claimed 45.

If you had no economic data but had merely observed this dynamic, you might just be able to predict wealth distribution in these United States.